Monthly Archives: December 2014

By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News Pope Francis has written a letter to show his solidarity with Christians in the Middle East a day before Christmas, the Italian daily news website The Vatican Today reported Tuesday. In his letter, the pope said he is closely following the daily advances of the conflicts in…

By Diane Pathieu CHICAGO (WLS) — ABC7 Eyewitness News Reporter Diane Pathieu is on the cover of the inaugural issue of Assyrian Stars Magazine. The magazine focuses on promoting and highlighting Assyrian culture, heritage and members of the community that have made real strides.…

BY NICOLE WINFIELD ASSOCIATED PRESS Pope Francis kisses a statue of Baby Jesus as he celebrates the Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican,GREGORIO BORGIA AP PHOTO Story VATICAN CITY Pope Francis celebrated Christmas Eve with a late-night Mass Wednesday in St.…

Iraqi refugees Photo Credit: Open Doors charity for persecuted Christians Related Categories: Abp Morgan, Middle East, refugees & migrants, Wales From the Church in Wales The Archbishop of Wales is calling on Christians to stand up against the darkness in today’s world and show the light of God.…

The Islamic State has released a list of rules dictating how Christians living in the Syrian city of Raqqa should behave/Pic:APThe Islamic State has released a list of rules dictating how Christians living in the Syrian city of Raqqa should behave/Pic:APThe Islamic State has released a list of rules dictating how Christians living in the…

By Paul Crompton | Al Arabiya News Christian Iraqi refugee children take part in a Christmas ceremony in Ankawa, the Christian quarter of Erbil. (Photo courtesy of Aleteia) After a year of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria purging Christian minorities from its…

Archbishop in Jerusalem offers Obama perspective on who the enemy is JERUSALEM – At tiny St. Mark’s Church in Jerusalem’s Old City, priests chant in Syriac among smoking, golden censors. It is a dialect of Aramaic, the language of Jesus, and the oldest Christian liturgy in existence.…

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 W. Bloomfield, Michigan At the request of the Washington based In Defense of Christians (IDC) representatives Joe Cella, IDC Senior Advisor and Kristina Olney, IDC Director of Government Relations and Outreach, the Iraqi Christians Advocacy and Empowerment Institute…

Ankawa.com – Younes Thanon Members of ISIS in the district of Almajmoaa Althakafia, that located in the northeast area of the city of Mosul, have distributed a number of leaflets prohibiting the people from congratulate Christians on their feasts, that will come after few days.…

Ankawa.com – Kirkuk – Emad Matty On Monday, 12th of December 2014, a Christian family of 10 people coming from Sinjar and arrived Kirkuk. The members of this family were hidden and lived in their home in Sinjar since the fall of the city by the terrorist militants of the Islamic State. After the recent…

Posted by ACN News By Oliver Maksan “Christian love transcends all frontiers” • The Christian refugee children of Iraq have lost everything. Now they are being remembered at Christmas, thanks to ACN The nuns and their helpers work tirelessly, opening the cardboard boxes that are…

By Lori Higgins, Detroit Free Pres hey’ve already collected more than 20,000 coats, loads of hygiene products, clothing and cash donations to help Iraqi Christians who’ve been displaced from their homes and communities by ISIS. Now, a group of mostly Chaldean educators in metro Detroit is turning its attention to…

by Giorgio Istifan A young Christian from Aleppo victim of the Syrian conflict tells his story. He went from leading a normal life with a wife and daughter to one of unemployment and separation. The war has split his family; now he can see his wife and daughter only a few hours a day. Yet,…

BY MICHAEL GRYBOSKI , CHRISTIAN POST REPORTER(PHOTO: REUTERS/STRINGER) Militant Islamist fighters waving flags, travel in vehicles as they take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria’s northern Raqqa province, June 30, 2014.…

by EDWIN MORA Christians in Lebanon are arming themselves to combat the Islamic State and other jihadists who are threatening their villages, reports The National, a state-owned news agency in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, or IS) jihadists control large swaths of territory across Iraq and…

Believers: attacked and killed; churches, schools and businesses: looted and torched – Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world. Can Christians hope for the freedom to practice without fear? Kirche in Ägypten The Prince Tawadros Monastery in Fayoum, Egypt, was set on fire by protesters…

Jürgen Todenhöfer, 74, spent 10 days in Isis-controlled territory. He says the reality on the ground is different from what anyone in the West realises The first Western journalist in the world to be allowed extensive access to Isis territories in Syria and Iraq has returned from the region with a warning: the group is…

By Oliver Maksan and John Pontifex • Patriarch stresses importance of trip and guarantees the Pope’s security • He reiterates calls for ground troops to ‘liberate’ ISIS-held Christian towns POPE Francis would be “100 percent” safe if he visited Iraq, according to the Patriarch of Baghdad, who has stressed the importance of such a trip…

BY ANUGRAH KUMAR , CHRISTIAN POST CONTRIBUTOR Syria(PHOTO: REUTERS/AZAD LASHKARI) A convoy of Kurdish peshmerga fighters drive through Arbil after leaving a base in northern Iraq, on their way to the Syrian town of Kobani, October 28, 2014.…

Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani (L) and his Syrian counterpart Mohammad Jihad al-Laham attend a press conference in Damascus on December 21, 2014. Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani says Syria is paying the price for its resistance against the Israeli regime, vowing Tehran’s full support for a political solution…